Account Executive

Job Description

Job Description

Job Title: Account Executive

Location: 635 W Michigan St Orlando, FL 32805

Duration: FTE

Salary: $65k-75k (car allowance, annual merit increase and stock)

Position Summary:

Company X is looking for a successful Local Account Executive that is a high-energy hunter focused on building relationships at all levels. The Local Account Executive is motivated by identifying and solving advertising problems on behalf of the customer. They must be a strategic thinker with exceptional prospecting skills, high energy and a structured solution selling process. They are natural leaders with a desire to win in a collaborative, team environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Identify, uncover, and develop account opportunities.
• Up selling and leveraging business from new and established customer relationships.
• Excellent ability to properly qualify projects to maximize an efficient sales cycle.
• Develop and deliver custom sales presentations and demonstrations.
• Choreograph and conduct on-site assessments of customer requirements and needs.
• Collaborate with internal creative department and clients to assist in development of effective advertising campaigns.
• Partner with Charting, Creative, Operations and Administrative staff to ensure on time delivery of advertisements in agreed upon locations.
• Assist in the resolution of issues related to billing and accounts.

Knowledge & Experience:

• Ability to successfully work under tight project deadlines.
• Ability to understand existing business processes as well as investigate and troubleshoot issues in a time critical environment.
• Ability to link vision and strategy with overall business objectives and communicate rationale in a compelling, concise manner.
• Demonstrate a repertoire of skills such as scheduling, prioritizing, organizing, planning, problem solving, decision-making, financial savvy, and attention to detail, and follow through.
• Maintain a big picture, strategic outlook with the ability to iterate from company strategy and planning
• Self-motivated, standout colleague, action-and-results oriented.
• Well organized, exceptional communication and presentation skills- effective communicator/presenter to groups of all sizes and levels of management
• Extraordinary selling capability
• Ability to sell at all levels including C-Level positions

Preferred qualifications/Education:

• Demonstrated relationship building skills that extend to internal team members in pre/post-sales.
• Proficiency in all aspects of the sales cycle, including qualifying accounts.
• Experience selling mobile mobile/digital advertising ecosystem a plus.
• Ability to understand products and effectively identify how it can provide value to a prospective customer.
• Ability to work within a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
• College degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2+ years’ experience in OOH advertising, media sales preferred.
• Local Market knowledge preferred.